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and directed by Christopher Barry.

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Other topics discussed: Are annuals books? A “laughing sound” on 9/11. Brave new world that has such laundry in it. Some words for Putin. The evolution of our editing process. Whether we’re in a field and whether Tom Hardy is in that field with us. Doctor Who actresses who’ve married Elon Musk. The degradation of West Tāmaki’s cinemas. Who the real firefighters are. Ads being different elsewhere. An albatross with a gun. Malevolent hand hygiene. What it was like for Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz felt when Olli Colli won her Oscii. My Father I mean The Father. “Get a DVD player! Go to the library!” Who should be and who is on Taskmaster. The only proper way to watch Richard Osman’s House of Games. “Maybe we’ll Twilight or Night Watch.” There’s Show Quizness Like Show Quizness Like Show Quizness I Show. Cuptain Oonderpoonts. The weekly Lisa Hanawalt discussion. Living like Raymond Chandler and its issues. Uther’s computer baby. “What do you think happens in toothpaste ads?” Cobalt or arsenic?

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Other topics discussed include: 'Monster Hospital' by Metric. Uther's big boy. Thomas Vinterberg's 'The Hunt'. The one joke about 'Rashōmon'. Is Barbara Wright on WikiFeet? A lot of talk about 'Baby Geniuses', the best podcast. Mariska Hargitay stopping for a gyro. Laline Paull's 'The Bees'. "Take or leave 'Twilight'." New segment: There's Show Quizness Like Show Quizness Like Show Quizness I Show. Rolling Stone's Top Ten Albums of All Time. Briar gets quite snotty. Why Joe Rogan is the way he is. What Uther is annoyed about on Twitter this week.

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Some of the other topics discussed: Uther's dumb jokes, Club Silencio is an Apple Store, Taskmaster, Rove McManus, fear from what follows Moffat's surfing, what studio we're in, the most reluctant a kiwi has ever been to talk about the weather, beak measurement, how is distance kept, the rain, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, Now That's What I Call Music, how time works in Deep Space 9, the work of Helen Zaltzman, was Davison the last good Doctor, when Hugh Grant was the Doctor, Uther's absurd prediction for the 60th anniversary special, other celeb Doctors but not Idris Elba, Star Wars, A View to a Kill, what terms of magic Shakespeare invented, the best ten books ever according to GoodReads, There's Show Quizness Like Show Quizness Like Show Quizness I Show, when As read YA, yet more Sally Rooney talk, 'Drive My Car', 'Memoria' and Tilda Swinton moping, how does one trapse?, 'Bad Habits' by Flynn Meaney, the powers of English teachers and playwrights, Katherine Mansfield, a surprising amount of 'Heavenly Creatures' discussion, Final Questions, the heist to kill time continues its planning stage, the Ent who puts out his on-fire head in the water, Adam Driver (of course), Jimmy Pound, and, as always, Briar's status as a sleeper agent for the French government.

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Other Topics Discussed: World War 3. THE PESCATONS. "Like a bean." THERE'S NO QUIZNESS LIKE SHOW QUIZNESS, and, of course, CALL THE MIDWIFE. 

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Other Topics Discussed: Briar just getting sleepier and sleepier over the course of the episode. PARKS AND REC. When hope was still alive. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD. Happy Voordlinte's Day. Valentine's (the day). Valentine's (the restaurant). SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET. Jesus. Travel plans. And, of course, THERE'S NO QUIZNESS LIKE SHOW QUIZNESS.

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Other Topics Discussed: What drugs are you taking? Extra taps. Tab and it's appearance in Austin Powers. Podcast ads. The second best season in the first season of I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE. The science of TORCHWOOD. The first film Bri ever saw at the movies. "That's a pretty cruel thesis." What it was like being on the set of THE FATHER? Twisting of flesh. Rooms of people laughing at us. The most honest penis. Chekov's disintegration machine. Confusion. Stoleshite Valpoo. THERE'S NO QUIZNESS LIKE SHOW QUIZNESS. Briar's back at work. A lot of people yelling "Coward!" at each other. Baseball - sport for wimps. The joys of JOHN WICK. JANE CANDLE. The Cans film festival. What is happening when Jim Carrey's heart is beating outside of his chest? WHAT ELSE CAN WE SEE ON THE BBSEE? CALL THE MIDWIFE. PHILLY PHILLY WANG WANG. Rick Astley's favourite Pixar films. Uther notices something about Hayao Miyazaki. Toxoplasmosis. Thaddeus the Panther. AAAHH! REAL MONSTERS.

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CONTENT ADVISORY: Passing, non-explicit, mention of sexual assault.

Other topics discussed: Dinosaurs (on a box). Dinosaurs (favourite). Wallace Shawn. Joel Coen and William Shakespeare's MACBETH. Uther saying "scotch" a lot and I mean like a lot. Uther Dean and Oliver Devlin's ME AND MY SISTER TELL EACH OTHER EVERYTHING, coming soon to Glasgow! Psychic violence. We've been reading DUNE wikipedia pages. This tender orb. The orb we've made our home. The three major steps in a relationship. This. Yo. Gurch. Gurt. A real bad thing. The other daughter's book of poems. The worst thing Tom Holland has ever done. The creative process behind bad films. Chaos run don't chaos walk to CHAOS WALKING. DRIVE MY CAR. A really dumb person. "Or do I?" A good bit of trivia about HALLOWEEN. What Matt Smith did. Marvel talk because we're so boring. Shania Twain. what3words. Why Bri likes maps. Projection-based homework. There's No Quizness Like Showquizness. Who is Encyclopaedia Brown? What Briar really thinks of books? "How many more squid need to die because of our rabid addiction?" St. Cryptids. Jacinda Ardern as a fire-fighter. An OMEN reboot is pitched. Wheatley x Anno. Sensorite reproduction.

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Other topics covered: Briar takes the reins and Uther cannot stop butting in like the parody of moribund masculinity he is. The bird calls on Radio New Zealand National. Kim Hill swearing. Bri's relationship with TikTok. Cybering. William Hartnell in Ibiza. Horcrux mechanics. "Hey, Siri. What happened in 2011?"

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Other topics covered: Google results are listed. Anjelica Huston's attractiveness and whether it has plateaued or declined. Frankintestine's Monster. A long and occasionally nuanced discussion of diversity in the arts and teaching the arts. A rendition of 'Monster Hospital' by Metric. Uther's anxiety about seeming that he's stealing glass-wearer valour. Halloween songs for all occasions. Emo and Paddington 2. And, of course, a book recommendation.

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Other topics covered: Imprecise descriptions of time, quite a lot of mocking anti-vaxxers, Bri and Uther coming up with a pretty good sounding feature film about the Dargaville Dog Olympics, the vape-based hologram system they use for intimacy, Uther's mum Alison calls so we get our first guest, "I have not done a complete survey of the Grudgiverse," a new segment called 'What the Flux?!' where Briar reviews new Doctor Who while Uther fails to not review new Doctor Who, some vintage kiwi Polar Pop nostalgia, and, of course, some book recommendations.

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Other topics covered: “Barbara? Barbara? Barbara? Barbara?” How good we are at lockdown. Tom Hardy calling Queen Anne and Moriarty. Taika Waititi’s early work. The various Korgs. “Not evil enough.” Either the shortest or the longest quote of the week thus far. Factoid for the weak. “Me saying it has a ‘neckbeard energy’ is an observation, not a judgement.” More Bones chat. A sponsor spot for Dailymotion dot com. Not enough hashish chat for my liking. Divided cheese. Waris Hussein’s history as a renegade Time Lord. Utopia, what a show. How much we love EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the cast of The History Boys. Business plans for the podcast and Bri’s opposition to them. ‘We should watch Beau Trevail later!” And the horrific French that follows. A return to the Wachowski well. “It fuckin’ toots.” “If you want to feel sad, check out The Second Renaissance.” Work updates and anticipation. Cookie preferences. Uther’s favourite part of lockdown. A Nimona recommendation. Library jokes and ISBN numbers. Claire Denis Villeneuve. Bri and Uther’s different theories of Film Festival. What it sounds like when they do or don't drink coffee. Bri’s double lobes. How Tim Burton lives with himself. The films of Cameron Crowe. And, of course, ASMR.

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Other topics covered: An attempt at raw doggin’ this one. Uther generally being very tired so he seeming much sadder than he was. Leap Day William. Where the mic is clipped when recording nude. The Ritual of Re-introduction. More Baby-Sitters’ Club talk than Doctor Who talk. Uther and Bri pitch The Au Pair Society, the gritty sequel to the BSC, following all of the members into a dark expanded universe. More Gilmore Girls opinions. Green hat hackers. ‘Kristy and the Overly Gendered Little League Team.’ “We all know the first lesson of Peaches.” “A six-year-long blackspot.” Which Miyazaki characters Uther thinks he looks like. Whether Briar can tell Uther if his heart is broken, or how to use the bin. Foot use. A new character debuts. Websites that tell you to look at other websites. Bri takes a controversial reading break when Uther starts defaming her. The worse Tatiana impression of all time. Briar recaptures the magic of talking like a witchly crone. “Chris Marker is very mad at you right now.” A lot of yawning late in the day. Briar’s Book-review Bloopers! The first time Uther and Briar met. Creativity crisis counselling. Some Wachowski talk. And, of course, the third David Mitchell.

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Other topics covered: The great mystery of what day of lockdown it is. The biggest thing Uther has ever forgotten. A big discussion of why Doctor Who has missing episodes, why Uther thinks that's kinda vital to the magic of the show, and, most importantly, Briar's profound disinterest in both of those things. Courtroom intrigue in the water bottle kingdom. The musical equivalent of Doctor Who's missing episodes. Briar breaks down prior obsessions. Losing time. People barrelling the camera. Something that borders on a sponsor spot for Shite & Sound, Uther's other podcast. Fanfiction and Briar cringing. "Who the fuck cares what people expect of you, though?" SuperWhoLock. Briar shutting down Uther's thoughts on anamorphic squeeze's effects on focus. Lucarotti's Doctor Who purism. Bri's COVID test voyage. Morning Zoo radio book talk on the new Sally Rooney. Little Unity's best-selling books. "20 minutes of uninteresting talk later..." Uther workshops joke-telling and being in the moment with Briar, which, as you'd expect, includes quite a lot of discussion of eating octopuses. 

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Other topics covered: “I think we’re raw-doggin’ this one.” A lot on mic technique. Briar reading storybooks. Listening to your own voice. Briar flies solo for the episode recap. The episode’s mouth-feel. What Nigel Robinson expanded on. The 3 Ninth Doctors. The Wicked + the Divine. Hideaki Anno reading TS Eliot. A cameo from our flatmate Rachel. A Yuri!! On Ice recommendation. Bri’s anime takes. Uther perhaps reveals far too much about himself while discussing Evangelion 3.0+1.0.1: Thrice Upon a Time. The surprisingly dark story of why Briar doesn’t like psychedelia. Uther unveils his ‘Reckoner’ impression. Yet another podcast about Home Improvement and Tim Allen. "Does the body rule the mind?/Or does the mind rule the body?/I dunno." Whether it is Matt Damon. Emotional lemons. Jon Klassen’s The Rock from the Sky. Metaphorical camp geography. Microsoft’s Teams is a nightmare. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. “Problematic.” Uther defends? appropriation?? Coastwatcher by David Hill. Briar and the Solomon Islands. Uther goes off on one with an absolutely cack-handed idea of what the world should have done IRT: COVID and that betters that with an even worse thought through idea of how to fight global poverty while Briar remains sane. Alan Partridge’s best line. The table, the chairs, and, of course, Jenny Nicholson.

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Other topics covered: A lot of talk about how it feels to be in lockdown. Briar's chocolate cup cakes and Zoom teaching observations. A sax solo of self-pity from Uther. Proper normal people with proper normal lives. "It is not the marble that is at fault, it is the whole maze," and, a good and charming chunk of Briar picture book talk.

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Other topics covered: Wellington airport's runway. How disappointed everyone is in Uther, and, a lot of talk about judgement.

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Other topics covered: 'The Firemaker 2: The Fightmaker'. Star Trek. An episode of our Lorde podcast The Slorde Path. The two directors of The Daleks. Picard is a CW show. Bug-eyed monsters including Daleks and Sydney Newman. A new scoring system in tribute to the Olympics. What the food equivalent of Meet Joe Black is. Briar seeing Amanda Palmer play with eyebrows for the first time. The existential invisibility of being a book-seller. How Uther and Briar are both Daleks. The trivia Uther forgot last week, and, a lot of table noise & breathing in the recording sorry.

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Other topics covered: Bizarre idiot Daleks. What genre Doctor Who is. Lift business. Standard-issue Dalek destruction. 1965 (a bloody-thirsty year). Dalek art. The deceptive simplicity of Terry Nation tension. Individual Daleks. When Uther tried to use Doctor Who to flirt with Briar on Twitter. Military fiction and its absence. A short review of Titanic. What AM and PM stand for. Briar's love for maps is discussed and appreciated. Briar does a good bit of the Thals as Californian surfer-dudes that is incredible. The down-side of triangular knowledge storage. A scene from an imaginary Bond film is played out. The unknowable vastness of space and Doctor Who's relationship to it. Briar's Favourite Meandering Space Thought. Doing silly shit but telling a story at the same time. A surprisingly long bit describing what our new mattress feels like. Briar debuts a passage from her formerly forth-coming novel. "Any human would be lucky to have coma ears!" "Incy" or "itsy"? And little gremlins.

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Other topics covered: Samuel Beckett and his place in the literary canon. Tony Hancock and a lunch machine. Plips. Plops. Raymond Cusiak. People being mean to Tenet. What a porpoise grave would look like. Spicy things for Bri to look up on her phone. A fancy man saying the word "texture" a lot. Crying over Gundam pilots, and, what will surely be the first of many theories about why the Daleks are scary.

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Other topics covered: Serials lasting impact on podcasting. Why they are recording in a hospital, and, different kinds of surgery.

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Other topics covered: Mobile phone interference, adults with child eyes, and old man butts.

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Other topics covered: Synonyms, Gunther from Friends, and, what fire is.

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Other topics covered: Shortbus. 'Solar Power,' and, how much of Briar's skin Uther can have.

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Other topics covered: What if Kafka was a millennial? And where the fire is.

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Other topics covered: Rupi Kaur, and have their first on-podcast fight.

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